The Signature of All Things

Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her novel, Stern Men, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her 2002 book, The Last American Man, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has been published in more than thirty languages; a film based on the memoir, starring Julia Roberts, opened in August 2010. Her most recent book, the memoir Committed: A Love Story, appeared in 2010. In 2008, Time magazine named Gilbert one of the most influential people in the world. Her Web site is www.elizabethgilbert.com.BiographyWhile Elizabeth Gilbert's roots are in journalism -- she's a Pushcart Prize-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated writer -- it's her books that have granted her even more attention.Gilbert departed from reporting in 1997, with the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Pilgrims. A finalist for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pilgrims was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book, was listed as one of the "Most Intriguing Books of 1997" by Glamour magazine, and went on to win best first fiction awards from The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares.Since then, Gilbert has successfully alternated between fiction and nonfiction -- a high-wire act that has paid off in a string of critically acclaimed bestsellers that includes her first full-length novel, Stern Men (2000); The Last American Man (2002), a National Book Award for Nonfiction; and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (2006), a celebrated spiritual memoir that landed on several year-end Best Books lists.

出版者:Viking Adult

作者:[美] Elizabeth Gilbert

页数:512

出版时间:2013-10-1

价格:USD 28.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670024858

图书标签:英文原版小说ElizabethGilbert美国文学美国自然科學植物外国文学

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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.

Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.

读后感

2020.3.18.19:11，北京 我慢慢合上手中沉甸甸的书，抬头望向窗外，夜幕下的院子已有影影绰绰的灯光，狂风大作，翻卷着压得很低的树枝……如同我此刻的心绪，关于《万物的签名》我说不出话。 那些无法应付生存战斗的，或许一开始就不该尝试存活。唯一不可饶恕的罪恶，是在最终归...

拿什么对抗漫长人生中的孤独感？伴侣，财富还是日复一日的劳作？ 读这本书的时候我一直在思考这个问题。 对我而言，这本书不是个人传记，不是爱情小说，不是悬疑小说，不是任何一种虚构或纪实文学。我甚至没有去查证书中所写的人物，故事有多少真实性。对我而言，这都不重要。...  

拿什么对抗漫长人生中的孤独感？伴侣，财富还是日复一日的劳作？ 读这本书的时候我一直在思考这个问题。 对我而言，这本书不是个人传记，不是爱情小说，不是悬疑小说，不是任何一种虚构或纪实文学。我甚至没有去查证书中所写的人物，故事有多少真实性。对我而言，这都不重要。...  

1859年11月24日达尔文的《物种起源》在英国伦敦出版，立刻引起轰动。一个月后，身处荷兰的六十岁的女植物学家阿尔玛读完这本书，泪流满面。哭泣是因为喜悦，她写过一篇和达尔文观点类似的论文，可惜没有发表，达尔文的成就证明了她并不孤独。 与阿尔玛同样处境的还有华莱士，...  

用户评价

呼！读得欲罢不能的大部头，推荐给爱科学，植物学，宗教，哲学，尤其是带有一丢丢女权主义思想的小伙伴。

If i once cursed on committed I pray lord to hv my words back! Cos the signature of all things worths all a devoted reading! My kobo even felt noble on it.What a journey! 9/2/2014

from the author of Eat, Pray, Love. bravo, 太炫酷了。

我想我是真的开始喜欢这个作者了，每次选题都戳中萌点，写的句子也很可爱。简单易读,最适合假期或者双休日

听的英文有声书。作者的第一本我就不喜欢，这本仍然不喜欢。简直是太话唠了，事无巨细都要写，有点太啰嗦。而且一开始没有意识到这是个传记体小说，传记的写法十分不习惯。